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Pride and Prejudice

about Netherfield and its master, she could not help
saying:
‘Oh, that my dear mother had more command over
herself! She can have no idea of the pain she gives me by

her continual reflections on him. But I will not repine. It
cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as
we were before.’
Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous
solicitude, but said nothing.
‘You doubt me,’ cried Jane, slightly colouring; ‘indeed,
you have no reason. He may live in my memory as the
most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I
have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to
reproach him with. Thank God! I have not THAT pain.
A little time, therefore—I shall certainly try to get the
better.’
With a stronger voice she soon added, ‘I have this
comfort immediately, that it has not been more than an
error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to
anyone but myself.’
‘My dear Jane!’ exclaimed Elizabeth, ‘you are too good.
Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic; I
do not know what to say to you. I feel as if I had never
done you justice, or loved you as you deserve.’

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